Hayley Potter, The Girl Who Lived

what if harry was a girl, what if james had not been there on halloween, what if he was on a mission for dumbledore, what if he had raised Hayley, how would she have turned out. Hayleys first year at hogwarts, what will be different.
breif metions of SLASH
Very Alternate universe and some out of Character characters,
very very slight ron bashing
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It was just after eleven on the 30th of July and James Potter was
sat in his living room staring at a magical photo of his wife, just
after she had given birth to their little girl, as he watched the
photo, a healer passed Lily a tiny bundle wrapped up in a light
pink blanket, as she peered into the bundle, lily was overcome to
emotion and a single tear slid down her cheek, she looked happier
than James had ever seen her, and it was all down to that one
little girl, lily's little girl, his little girl, James leaned back
and let his mind wonder back to the day she was born. Lily sat blot
upright in her bed, panting, it took her a moment to realise what
woke her, but then, as another agonising pain shot over her heavily
pregnant stomach, she knew, it was time, her baby was coming. "
JAMES … JAMES WAKE UP NOW !" she screamed at her still sleeping
husband, he shot up as though just been hit with a stinging hex and
rolled off the bed "whoa… wasn't me .. It was Padfoot… wait what...
hell Lils screaming at me for woman , I was sleeping then you no"
James, still groggy and itching to get back into the land of sleep,
picked himself up off of the floor and looked accusingly at his
wife, "oh sleep, you want to go back to sleep do you , fine , just
thought you might like to know that THE BABYS COMING" James' face
dropped and he had a look like a dear caught in the headlight look
on his face, "what , you sure , oh Merlin, are you ok , what do we
do" "James calm down, I'm fine, we need to fire call the healers
though" she tried to calm her husband as she swung her legs over
the side of the bed and hoisted herself up "come on James, I need
you , the baby needs you, where's all of that Gryffindor courage
gone" James shook his head and walked round to lily, wrapping his
arm around her to steady her and helped her walk down the stairs
into the living room of their house. Another crap shot through
Lily, causing her to yell out, so James, not sure what to do
decided the fire call would be the best thing to do right then, at
least then he would no what to do. One frantic fire call later and
James was running round the house like a lunatic looking for Lily's
bag that she had packed a few nights ago, "got it" James yelled
victorious as he grabbed the offending bag from on top of his
wardrobe and ran back to Lily, "is that everything?" he asked
looking round the room to see if he could see anything else his
wife might need, "yes that's it all, you need to call moony first
though before we go, or if they turn up here they might panic, and
you no how Padfoot gets" James nodded his understanding and ran
over to the fireplace once again, throwing powder into it and
yelling "paddy's place" before throwing his head forward. It was
dark when his head came through the other end, not surprising
considering it was only three thirty in the morning, "if I have to
be up, so do they" James thought menacingly before yelling at the
top of his lungs "GOOD MORNING MY FELLOW MARAUDERS, I AM HERE TO
REQUEST YOUR ASSISTANCE IN SOME URGENT MATTERS … SO GET UP
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" from his place in the fire he could hear Sirius
shout" what the hell … JAMES" followed by stomping along the
landing leading to the living room. When he barged into the room,
it was obvious he had just woken up, which, after sharing a dorm
for seven years, James knew always put him in a bad mood, so he was
unfazed by the daggers he was been thrown. Before Sirius could let
rip on the abuse James was sure he was building up, Remus walked up
behind him and asked "so James … not that we don't love you or
anything but … why are you in our fireplace at three in the
morning?" "Ah moony I'm glad you asked because you see it's like
this … THE BABYS COMING!" that was all it took to get Sirius to
perk up "really , oh god man right what you doing here then
prongsi, get gone over to that wife of yours" Sirius's grin was so
large it almost looked painful "whoa slow down paddy, I had to tell
you guys, we're going to St Mungo's, can you meet us there?" "We'll
be there James, now go on get out of here, and get back to Lily"
Remus answered as he steered Sirius back towards the bedroom. The
rest of that day was just a blur of pacing outside the rooms doors,
after the healers were worried James was going to pass out they had
asked him to wait outside, and when they was still no baby by 6
o'clock Sirius turned James and asked " are you sure she's actually
having a baby, I bet it was just an excuse so she could eat more
pie" " SIRIUS BLACK UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO COME OUT THERE AND KICK
YOUR SORRY MUTT BUTT I WOULD SHUT THE HELL UP NOW YOU THINK IM
HAVING FUN IN HERE DO YOU, AND I DON'T EVEN LIKE PIE !" Sirius
paled dramatically and turned back to James, who along with Remus
were trying not to fall over laughing "how does she do that" he
whispered dramatically" "I have no clue my brother and I live with
her" answered James honestly, it was true, Lily always knew when
they were up to something or when they said something that they
really didn't want her to hear. After the scare Sirius got from
questioning Lily, the three men continued to pace endlessly well
into the night, hardly speaking, all wrapped up in his own
thoughts, it wasn't until almost half ten in the evening that the
healer called James back into the room, telling him it was almost
time, half an hour and a whole lot of screaming later, the baby was
born, after not wanting to know throughout all of the pregnancy,
neither James nor Lily knew the sex of their baby, but they both
claimed not to mind, in fact the only person who said he did mind
was Sirius, he had claimed it had to be a boy as he wanted a new
prongslet around, and it had to be a trainee marauder. When the
healer handed Lily the bundle, she asked "would you like to meet
your daughter Mrs potter" and Lily looked so happy she might burst
" a girl, a daughter, James we have a daughter" lily held the baby
in her arms, just staring at her for quite a while before looking
up at James, who was staring down at his little family with tears
in his eyes, and saying "Hayley, I want to call her Hayley
Elizabeth, after my mum" " perfect" answered James " but can we add
one more name" Lily nodded as James went to go get his best
friends, his brothers, who were still waiting outside the door.
"Guys come on in, I want you to meet someone" he opened the door
and allowed the two men to come inside, they both stood at the foot
of Lily's bed, as Lily handed the bundle over to James, who,
through tear strained eyes, spoke more softly than either of them
had ever heard before, "moony, Padfoot, meet Hayley Elizabeth Lily
Potter" a very audible AWWW could be heard even outside the room,
as Remus walked past to James, patting him on the back, and over to
kiss Lily on the cheek, " aww guys she's perfect, look at her she's
so small, but she already looks like lily, even has the green eyes
and red hair" "thanks moony, here do you want to hold her, Hayley
meet your uncle moony" James said as he passed the tiny pink bundle
over to Remus, Remus looked down at the perfect little person in
his arms and vowed there and then to love her uncontrollably and
never let anyone hurt her. James walked over to his best friend and
put his arm around his shoulder " so Sirius are you too
disappointed about her been a girl, not to want to be godfather
anymore?" he asked teasingly" wait what, you want me to be
godfather?" Sirius asked in complete shock, "well sort of yeah, you
see, we have come up with a plan because in the stupid prejudiced
wizarding world moony can't be godfather but we want both of you
so, in the wizarding world, yes its going to be you, but then we're
going to do it in the muggle world too, where they are not so
bothered about werewolves and moony will also be godfather, that's
of course, if you want to?" Remus walked over to his lover and his
best friend and passed the baby to Sirius before lifting James up
off of the floor and spinning him around "really, I get to be
godfather oh Merlin I can't believe it, thank you so much" "ha-ha
thanks moony your welcome, erm… can you put me down now" James
asked with a huge grin plastered on his face. They both turned to
face Sirius who was so mesmerized by the little life in his arms he
had totally missed the whole episode, he had tears strolling down
his face as he whispered to the baby in his arms " hello, I'm your
uncle Padfoot, me and your uncle moony here are going to look after
you, and spoil you rotten, and I'm going to teach you how to prank
your old dad and drive your mum crazy, and ill take you shopping so
often that you will have more shoes than your mummy over there, and
that will take some doing, I'm here for you baby, ill always be
here for you" as he looked around at everyone else in the room he
realised they had all been listening and all had tears in their
eyes, Lily looked over to him through her tears and said " I
thought you wanted her to be a boy" " me no never I wanted a girl
all along, your getting old Lils, senile you no". For the rest of
the night Hayley was passed around the four people in the room,
each of them marvelling at the perfectness of her, until the
morning when a healer came in and told them they should all rest,
as they left James turned round to look at his wife who was holding
their daughter like she was the most precious thing in the world,
and he knew he would do anything he could to protect his perfect
little family. As the flooed home Remus turned to the others and
said "it's a shame wormtail is on a mission, he missed something
really special there" "yeah answered James, "but he can come meet
her next time we have the rest of forever to enjoy her don't we" It
was the clock chiming midnight that woke James from his
reminiscing, he stood up from his chair and silently walked up the
stairs and into Hayley's bedroom, "you should be here Lils,
celebrating with us, you'd be so proud of her, I no I am" James
whispered as he stroked his baby girls hair, eleven, wow eleven
years since that faithful night, and his love for Hayley Elizabeth
Lily Potter had grown more and more each day. He kissed the top of
her red hair and walked out the door, vowing that when she woke up
she would have the best birthday she could ever have, he would make
sure his little girl had everything she wanted, because she was all
he had left of Lily and she was still the most precious thing in
his world.